Job 21:18

Are they blown along like straw in the wind? Does a tornado come in and carry them away?

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In The King James Version

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

In Context

17How often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does disaster come upon them? How often does God punish the wicked in his anger?

19Some say, ‘God saves up people's punishment for their children.’ But I say, ‘God should punish those people themselves so that they can learn from it.’

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7By your majestic power you destroyed those who opposed you. Your anger blazed out and burned them up like stubble.

Job 27:21The east wind picks them up and they're gone, carried away from where they were.

Psalms 35:5Let them be like chaff blown by the wind; let the angel of the Lord drive them away.

Psalms 83:14Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains,

Isaiah 17:13The nations roar like the roaring of crashing waves. But he confronts them, and they run far away, blown by the wind like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweeds driven by a storm.

Isaiah 40:24In fact they are hardly even planted, hardly even sown, hardly even taken root, when he blows on them and they wither, and the wind carries them away like straw.

Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27

Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →

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